yes do it

The Basics....

There is no way this one's gonna fly! If we can't shoot suppah or buy beer at 1130 AM on a sunday......there's now way the state is going to let us blow ourselves up by owning powder wrapped in paper!!! Powder wrapped in copper, backed with a primer and tipped with lead....that's fine...but no powder wrapped in paper!

Devils Advocate....

But how screwed up is it....that on one hand....the state will say...."Don't cook with lard rendered from a pigs tush...that's deadly". Then....turn around and say "ya know....those fire works we banned decades ago....we're not seeing too many people that have gotten hurt.....and we only have 10 to 20 forest fires a year attributed to fireworks while the ban is in place.....Perhaps more tourists will show up to buy stuff and the state will collect more revenue if we make it easier for the general public to access explossive devices! Those same folks may burn the woods to the ground....but hey, it's Maine....there's plenty of woods!

To Sum It Up....

Back in the 80's......I would personally shoot bottle rockets out of a cut off wiffle ball bat at my little brother and love every bit of it......But that doesn't mean as an adult I want my kids to be able to walk into a corner store in the summer and purchase enough artilliary to reinact the revolutionary war in the back 40!

i'd like to re-enact the Blitz in London from world war ii

shoot them at patty-i's house

“I have a very hard time justifying allowing something we know injures and causes property damage, just so somebody can make a profit,” he told the Kennebec Journal.

Alcohol

Cigarettes

Guns

Automobiles

Teenagers

Somebody is already making the profit, and there are infinite ways to choose from to cause injuries and property damage. Now, don't these people in our legislature have better things to do?

marrache said ,there smuggling it anyways,well people smuggle drugs to should we make that legal to make a profit for maine to?i know i dont want my teen to be able to walk into a store and buy them,the accedents may not be reported but thay happen ,its illigal to have them you think people are going to seek care so thay can be turned in, these doctors are mandated to tell these things to police(REMEMBER)

Doesn't it seem odd that the federal government thought, as a Marine, I was responsible enough to be issued an M-16 rifle, but the State won't let me play with fireworks? I am an American. I should be allowed to do as any other American.

The Nanny State will never allow it...

Well what do you know . . . some basic logic actually coming out the State Legislature! Perhaps these same individuals could use the same kind of logic and pass a bill legalizing marijuana! Prohibition does NOT WORK and it never will!

my thoughts exactly booze is legal and other dangerous things fireworks can hurt but how many states are they legal in now and yes legalize weed peace

Way to go lawmaker. Do you think we will have less fires and injuries if we make fireworks legal????....very doubtful. Do you not see that if this becomes law we are going to have more problems. Why don't you lawmakers come up with something that will better the state. You guys are always thinking of dumb ways to make more money without thinking through the consequences.

markrc is making sense here. Did you read Dr. Lisa's last statement? "While it's dangerous, if used well and appropriately, it's a means of enjoyment. They are smuggling (them in) anyways. We might as well allow it and make it safe."

"Marrache, a physician whose husband also is a physician and works shifts in the emergency room, said they don’t see many fireworks injuries."

Ya think?!?

Maybe that's because the law banning fireworks is working? Preventing injuries?

freerange I'm exactly that way, exlude the alcohol, cars, guns.

IE: guns don't kill people - people kill people, alcoholics drink alcohol, driving a car starts with responsibility.

my list:

Cigarettes

Liberalism

Corporate Greed

Conservatism

Children in any form

Women with names like "Shaniqua" and "Tandy"

The Black Fist

and Zionism

Ban everything , Make all of Maine a national park .

I like that idea Wallyo

Free Range wrote: "“I have a very hard time justifying allowing something we know injures and causes property damage, just so somebody can make a profit,” he told the Kennebec Journal. "

TEENAGERS??? LMFAO...... i just got the most hilarious mental image from that.... thank you.

The sale is for adults. Your kids wouldn't be able to go purchase them at the store. I think it's a good idea. When I was younger, I lived in Mississippi, and it was a tradition on July 4th for the kids to get those little novelty ones and use them, while our parents shot off the larger ones. You see it ALL the time around the lakes and camps during that day and even on other days. I think that's smart of people to at least be shooting them off my large bodies of water. I was even walking one year through downtown Dover-Foxcroft with a friend, and just as we walked over the bridge by the Mobil, someone shot off fireworks down the river a ways. We kind of looked at each other like "HUH?" cause it was August I think. If anything, this will allow for people to shoot them off in a more public place, or out in a large clearing where they can be seen, other than out in the woods somewhere trying to hide if from the police. That probably attributes to the forest fires. But also, parents need to lock up the fireworks or hide them so children cannot find them and play with them and injure or seriously hurt themselves.

New Hampshire! The smartest state in New England!! They do it with Booze, Cig's, and FireWorks!! Why can't Maine follow practices of a neighboring state?? Get with the times!!

Wether the state of Maine legalizes the use of fireworks is irrelvent to me and many others. I live in Georgia in the winter and Maine in the summer. I would love to spend my money in Maine to buy my fireworks, but you don't want it. So I buy mine in Georgia,Tennessee, or NH on my way back to Maine. .

I can remember the citizens of New Jersey in an uproar not so long ago because somebody in state government wanted to legalize the "dangerous practice of pumping your own gas." Now Maine is considering "legalizing fireworks for responsible adults." When will all of this madness end?

Not saying "yes" and not saying "no," I would like to know how allowing the sale of fireworks in Maine will "make it safe" ???

You know what? Even if this bill passes, they will tax the heck out of fireworks so much that no one will be able to afford them. And by the way, it's not any more dangerous than the people that make the decision to drive without seat belts, helmets, wear orange vests, etc, etc, etc. There is a risk to everything...

THIS NEEDS TO BE PASSED, LETS GET WITH THE TIMES AND NOT BE COMMIES ANYMORE

“I know of many, many people, Mainers, that go over to New Hampshire and they spend in excess of $100,” he said. “It’s illegal, but it’s happening.”

I would definetly say in EXCESS. We spent over $5,000 one day on fireworks... i'm not saying we brought them to Maine because that's illegal. But people spend WAY more than $100. Fireworks can be outrageously expensive!!!!

When I was a teenager, I watched a house burn down. Teenagers with bottle rockets caused the fire. While they may only say they'll sell to adults, you know whose hands these dangerous toys will end up in. NO FIREWORKS!!!

I heard on the radio that the sale of fireworks would generate a couple hundred thousand in revenue.

How much will the injuries cost that are caused by fireworks?

My guess is the couple hundred thousand in revenue will be greatly reduced with what the state has to pay hospitals for injuries. Oh I forgot our state doesn't pay hospitals, add it to the tab.

they state lets use have guns people get hurt from them every day same with beer and everything thing else ya some people dont use there head around these things but it should be allowed save me a trip to n.h every year

I once saw an abandoned saw mill burn down.... it was caused by a kid playing with a road flare. Ban road flares!! I wake up every morning and count my fingers... thankful that fireworks is illegal. I am such an incompetent idiot that I really would not have the sense to drop a firecracker before it went off.

Fireworks--chlorination for the gene pool. What the heck, go for it.